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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• Notes
• References
• 2 How to achieve governability at the local level?: Theoretical and conceptual considerations on a complementarity of urban leadership and community involvement
• Introduction
• Can the interplay between urban leadership and community involvement respond to (local) government as well as to governance failures?
• Urban leadership and community involvement: towards a better understanding
• Final remarks
• Notes
• References
• 3 Urban leadership and community involvement: An institutional analysis
• Introduction
• Conceptual framework
• Legitimation and institutional analysis
• Problems of community involvement, functions of leadership
• Interactive arenas in Roombeek as an example
• Institutional redesign as challenge and opportunity for leadership
• Conclusions
• Annex Operationalisation of the IAD rules
• Notes
• References
• 4 The institutional setting of local political leadership and community involvement
• Structure of local government systems
• The local authority between centre and locality
• The political dimension
• The economic dimension
• Political and economic dependency
• The internal organisation of city governments
• External and internal settings
• Summary and hypotheses
• Notes
• References
• 5 Cities in transition: From statism to democracy
• The institutional setting of local government
• From local government to local governance?
• The concept of CULCI for countries of Central and Eastern Europe
• Notes
• References
• 6 Cities in the multi-level governance of the European Union
• Introduction
• Cities, EU and sustainability
• EU impact on urban governance
• Cities in the EU multi-level governance: poor relation or unavoidable partner?
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• 7 Collaboration in multi-actor governance
• Disjointed government
• The collaborative agenda
• Structures of integration
• Multi-actor institutional arrangements
• Competitiveness and inclusion
• References
• 8 Changes in urban political leadership: Leadership types and styles in the era of urban governance
• Introduction
• Approaches to local political leadership
• The new urban political leadership
• Factors influencing political leadership and criteria to measure them
• Preliminary hypothesis on combinations, benefits and risks of leadership types and styles
• Notes
• References
• 9 Leading localities: Rethinking the agenda
• Introduction
• Understanding leadership
• From local government to local governance
• From public administration to new public management
• Who are the local leaders?
• Locality leadership in action
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 10 Legitimacy and community involvement in local governance
• Introduction
• Citizen and community participation
• The whys of participation–legitimacy and local governance
• The whos and hows
• Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• 11 Participation and leadership in planning theory and practices
• The origins of participation in planning
• The challenged legitimacy of spatial planning and the search for new sources of legitimation
• New demands for participation and leadership in spatial planning
• The new participatory approaches
• New approaches to planning and the complementarity of leadership and participation
• Notes
• References